How did the DEA read my E-mail?

[jonnyblade]

Just checked that out, 256bit AES encryption that is pretty damn close to uncrackable, unless there is a program flaw the bruteforce time on that would be months.

 

[TtTrain]

Harddrives are made up of several layers. When you delete or format something it does not completely erase all layers. So even if you were to format your drive, then lay it on top of a magnet they would still be able to recover some if not most of the data.

If they can get into your account (they can)
And if they can read your encrypted emails (they can)
They can decrypt your emails
They can read your emails

No privacy

Patriot Act + Global Bullying + $$$ = You are Fizzucked my Frizzend.

Best bet is to set up a routine to wipe your drives 2ce a day. Once around 2AM, once around 2PM. They like to come to get you on a Friday when you wont have time to call a lawyer or make bail, will have to sit in jail over the weekend at least.

And as far as email goes, youre only as secure as the dude on the other end. That means, you are totally insecure.

If youre gonna be a bad guy, accept these things. Make each move count and stick and move, stick and move. Have other people do your dirty work and if they get hot or caught, throw them off a bridge or bury them with (bodyweight x 2) in lyme.

There are no small fish. If you are a small fish, you know bigger fish. They would love to lean on a small fish and the fishy family to try to turn them into rats and get the bigger fish. The small fish can do a lot of good for the G-MEN, and Id not consider myself safe if I knew anyone associated with larger fish. Where there are fish, there are rats.

There is a song like that... "Everybody rats... sometime...."

Love always, for everyone...

Tt

 

[floridalife]

You gotta rememeber they have HUGE funds, and teams of computer analysts and even past hackers employed by them. They hire the bad guys to do their dirty work.. They are VERY advanced when it comes to computer ghacking, decryption, and recovering lost data. The only TRUE way to prevent data from being recoevred is complete destruction of the HD, but if you do not want to do that, then wipe it, wipe it again, wipe it again, defrag defrag defrag, i'd do it 10 times. DEEP formats, etc

Then copy large volums of software etc back on the drive, because untill you actually WRITE over the space where the data was, there's a good chance it's still there

 

[grebcot]

One thing that helps is alternating wipes on the disk. DOD standard is (if I recall correctly, it's been a while) 7 wipes. Each wipe alternates... so the first wipe is writing all 0's, the second is all 1's, the third is 010101.... the fourth is 101010..., the fifth is random 0's and 1's, etc.

The idea is that you write so much random bullshit that it makes is extremely difficult -- if not impossible -- for the other guy to sort through it all and extract the information they want.

Pro: Extremely effective method at destroying data.
Con: Blows away the entire disk and depending on CPU speed, drive speed, and drive size, it can take 8 hours or more.

Not really an effective method in the heat of the moment. As others have said, the best thing you can do is combine data wiping methods with physical destruction of the drive. You might not succeed in destroying all the data, but you can sure as hell make it a nightmare for anyone to work on.

This is a topic I'm familiar with because I used to work for a computer consulting firm where one of our tasks was to take old government computers with sensitive information (SSNs, banking information, etc) and thoroughly annihilate the data before disposing of the computers.


(This isn't intended to help anyone thwart legal efforts and investigations, but to ensure personal privacy and security in a very insecure environment)

 

[jonnyblade]

This is retarded, they don't spend this kind of money on finding people buying juice, they will have a guy to search through your history and maybe do a deleted data recover with a 3rd party program and thats about tops.
Everyone is talking like its a national security issue or something, there not gonna send your pc to a top level data recovery center and hook it up to super encryption crackers they really don't care that much. There is a back log of more important things to take care of I am sure.

 

[enacer420nj]

PGP isn’t secure since they were sold. The windows based version that worked on Windows 2000 (doesn’t work with XP) is hackable. The first time my systems were seized they broke into a few PGP files. They at least said they did and told me what they were about anyway. I am not sure 100% if they were just reading off the temp directory.

I use evidence eliminator and set the swap file to be deleted every time. If the big boys are looking at you and they have your system you are fucked either way. The PC info just gives them more to hold over your head.

I beat the assault with firearm bullshit, but got clipped on some computer misdemeanor charge. Thank God the warrant got thrown out.

Now I just keep a loaded 45 next to the machine. The wife has instructions too. Someone crashes in, point right here, pull trigger 10X. Also, they better yell POLICE real loud or they’ll be a real party!

Your wife must be a big woman to handle a .45 and if the police come in im sure they are gonna be finger on the trigger if they here 10 rounds of .45 go off...this might be the stupidest thing ive ever heard of.

 

[enacer420nj]

lol

 

[jegg21]

The folder Temporary Internet Files, generally located in C:/Documents and Settings/"User Name"/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files does contain most of what you see in your internet browser. This files are collectively known as the internet cache. There is also a list of sites visited/activities that windows saves, as part o your "Internet History". Both of these, as well as Internet cookies, which consists of personal or machine related information that a website can use to identify users can be found and deleted in Internet Explorer 7 by clicking Tools in the File menu at the top, then selecting Delete Browsing History. Select all applicable options and delete them. Also, when you delete anything, basically, you are deleting only the record in windows that the file is still present, which allocates the space on the hard disk that was occupied by the file or files as free space, meaning it is available to write information over those physical locations where the files used to be. It is very simple to go in and do a physical search for any and all files that have been on the hard drive, and recover them, even after they have been deleted. For this reason, you should occasionally do a "secure wipe" of the hard drive. This ca be performed with any number of third party application, from Symantec or Norton System Works, to Iolo Technologies, Drive Scrubber(which is the one I use). With these applications you may securely delete any and all traces of a file, including records that the file or files ever existed on the system, by deleting the information and overwriting it with random data a number of times. Once this action has bben performed, you may also use the application to overwrite the free space on the hard drive, which is an equally important step. Remember, the more times you overwrite the information, the less likely it will be that the data can be recovered. Therefore, set your application to overwrite at least three times, preferrably 7, as this method is US government standard and virtually ensures that data cannot be recovered by either software, nor most hardware means. Hope this helps.

 

[KD1]

LOL @ the guy who tells his wife to shoot at cops while he runs out the back door!

 

[black_market]

I got arrested. The DEA seized my computers.
I did a 'disk cleanup' and 'defrag' before they took my computers.
They found incriminating E-mails and internet forms. They claim it was in the Temporary Internet Files on my PC.
How can I be sure shit is off my computer.. like this post?
(I'm using hushmail).

I am almost sure they really do have your information but for other people that might think they need to clean information off there harddrive
you can use a WIPE utility and select any of this methods:

WIPE with ZEROES
WIPE with PSEUDO random Algorithms
WIPE with Standard of DOD 5220.22
WIPW with Standard of DOD 5200.28

Standard 5220.22 wipe the data 3 times!
Standard 5200.28 wipe the data 7 times!

And you can even use more HARDER and PRO methods like the Peter Gutman option! This deletes the data with special algorithms with 35passes!

This puts the data in a so hard state its mostly impossible to recover!!! (i believe even Agencies, Goverment countries, Special firms, etc) will require too much money, technology, high-tec expererienced people and too much time to TRY recovering data from hard disk deleted with this options

You can get this software from http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/
I believe it is free. I recommend this to anyone that has something to hide!!